The Rule Is Never on Trial
An appeal tests the clerk against the manual. Putting the manual itself on trial takes a different instrument.
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The Week They Called In Sick
Every institution measures whether the work got done. Almost none measures who had to be there for it to.
The Official Record Is Late
a structure can be correct on paper and dangerous in practice — two decades inside that gap
Incidence Is Not Suffering
You Don’t Have the Right
In this Age of Appeals, you have the paper right. And a stamina test.
We're On It! The Age of Abundant Acknowledgement
Why being in process so often leads nowhere: Legitimacy engineering and “care signals” as governance tech
Pending: The political economy of waiting
The loading screen is the most powerful weapon in the modern state
Assume Maximum Awareness
Institutional Apoptosis
Designing systems that know when to end
The Pyrrhic Condition
Hospitals, platforms, universities, and economies all improve the metrics that define success while quietly eroding the…
Critical Bioengineering
From medical implants to insurance portals, from stress fractures to eviction notices—the physics of failure hasn’t cha…
The Stock Market Hates a Cure
Ten years ago, Gilead Sciences did what modern medicine says it exists to do: it cured a disease.
Why Doctors Say No to New Tech
Edge-Case Medicine: How Profit Logic Treats Life as Waste
What We Built, and Refused to Become
Emergent Universality vs Top-Down Healthcare
Reclaiming Collective Care Without the State
Some pain will, of course, be there.
Actuarial Medicine & Hidden Exclusion
How Hospitals Quietly Filter Out Complex Patients and Call It “Efficiency”
Abundance Is Not a Future, It Is a Forbidden Present
Gatekeeping is what blocks care, not scarcity.
Algorithmic Austerity: How AI facilitates the Financialization of Medicine
Temporal Injustice in Medical Residency Programs
Healthcare Leadership in a Harmful System
Our healthcare system, most often celebrated for its technological advancements and life-saving capabilities, is a mach…
Proof-based Harm
The Curious Ethics of Soft Diagnosis
The Masked Psychedelic Experience
Do I Have the Energy to Start Over in Therapy?
Before my autism diagnosis, therapy—as it turned out—was reinforcing my masked self
On Decommodification
Should anyone be denied care, shelter, or education because they can’t afford it?
The Right to Provide Care
How U.S. Healthcare Policy Restricts the Fundamental Act of Caring for Others
I would be a horrible doctor.
I frankly don't have what it takes to survive today's version of medicine. But who really does?
Autism, Careerism, and Cultural Pressures as a Jain Indian American
Internalized ableism and its ties to South Asian American mental health awareness
What is Captive Insurance?
on part 3627 of 'Why is This Still Legal'
Morality as a Weapon Against Healthcare Workers
the new view of medical work as less of a calling and more of a job is a rational act of self-defense
The Myth of Greed in U.S. Healthcare
CEOs in Trouble for Doing Their Jobs Too Well
Introduction to Normative Medical Inversion
connecting Deaf Gain, the neurodiversity movement, and queer critical theory
Healthcare's AI Dilemma: Why America's Tech Falls Flat
nobody wants our money-mangled clinical decision support systems
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